Re: The Whales' Tale

The aperture is only F8, which is probably what I would have used with this scene.

~ which is closer. You might get away with carefully running a Blur Brush around these problem areas.

I agree.

Hi Colin,

Shooting with a longer focal length (than 28mm) and necessarily, from further away, would have given less DoF - but also likely critically damaged the perspective - perhaps a faster 28mm is called for

The EXIF says f/4.2 was possible (at that focal length), although I agree that shooting wide open is rarely a good idea.
The EXIF doesn't show the focus distance, so I can't postulate whether 'biassing' focus in favour of nearer might have helped blur the background (hyper focal distance was 5.28m according to EXIF).

Clever fountain design, but it probably only works when approached, or photographed, from where you were.